EDITOR'S NOTE: We've asked Dan Borchers of Citizens for Principled Conservatism, Brother Watch & Coulter Watch, to cover the "Conservative Political Action Conference" (CPAC) in D.C. this weekend as our Special BRAD BLOG correspondent. We've written about Borchers --- who was escorted out of CPAC in 2002 for distributing material critical of CPAC darling Ann Coulter and disallowed media credentials in the years following --- in several previous articles here, here, both of which include videos he's compiled showing Coulter to be a detriment to the Conservative Movement. As well, we wrote about Borchers in an article for the February issue of Mother Jones. He previous dispatch from "Bloggers Row" at CPAC on DAY 1 is here.

Anticipation for Ann Coulter's performance was high. Throughout the afternoon, the emcee repeatedly announced that the first four rows of seats were specifically reserved for gold club members. The panel preceding Coulter's speech was cut short to prepare for hers. Coulter's personal bodyguard ensured the stage was secure.

Coulter entered as if she owned that stage.

The audience gave Coulter a standing ovation as she graced the mesmerized crowd with her welcoming smile. The enthralled throng was jubilant. Audience members standing along the walls on the sides and back of the packed auditorium jockeyed for better viewing positions. Cameras flashed. And the audience cheered as she began to speak.

Coulter held the audience in the grip of her words, her voice, her message. A burst of applause and cheers greeted her "Raghead" joke: "I think our motto should be post-9-11, 'raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'"

But just moments later, a deathly silence filled the room as people grasped the full import of Coulter's express wish that liberal Supreme Court Justices be targeted for assassination. But Coulter quickly lured back her audience.

During Q&A, one student asked Coulter what her greatest ethical dilemma was. Coulter toyed with the audience as the hushed auditorium awaited her answer to this personal question. Then Coulter replied, "One time I had a shot at Clinton. I thought, 'Ann, that's not going to help your career.'"

The audience went wild in appreciation, suggesting hatred of the former president remains high among conservatives.

Another student (a Muslim) suggested Coulter stop denigrating all Muslims for the actions of a few, while a third student criticized her for her racist rhetoric. Coulter's responses were lackluster and non-responsive. Afterwards, one student noted, "She can dish it out, but she can't take it."

But not everyone at CPAC was thrilled about Coulter's presence. Prior to the speech, I spoke with Mohammed Ali Hasan, a spokesman for "Muslims for Bush" and "Muslims for America" who feels that Coulter is "completely inappropriate" and that she "hurts" the Conservative movement. Hasan unapologetically denounced Coulter as a poor representative for Conservatism. "Ann Coulter spends more time being a racist and bigot, and we don't welcome her at this conference."

After the speech, I spoke with one student, a Christian, who had deliberately gone down to the exhibit hall to apologize to the Muslim student for Coulter's objectionable "raghead" comments and others. Many other students were unnerved by portions of Coulter's speech and her "blatantly beating up on Muslims." (Listen to my short interview with several of the Students [MP3].)

Perhaps the weirdest recurrence at CPAC is Coulter-mania ? Ann Coulter has spoken at nine consecutive CPAC conferences ? and each year is more manic than the last. The longest lines are always for her book signings. Coulter-abilia is everywhere.

One remarkable aspect of Coulter's annual CPAC speeches is this startling fact: rarely is the subject known in advance. She is given free rein to speak on whatever she wants.

1998. Speech and panel debate.

1999. Panel debate. Coulter was in tears because of being yanked off the stage.

2000. Coulter was lauded the Conservative Journalist of the Year.

2001. Coulter answered one fan's question about the authorship of her first book, claiming the failure to credit Michael Chapman was an "editorial oversight." Neither Coulter nor Regnery have ever given official credit to Chapman for his literary and research contributions to that book.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Later that evening, Coulter gave another address at George Washington University. A BRAD BLOG fan was on hand with a video recorder, but not allowed to tape the address despite prior permission granted.

Instead, he was able to tape some of the student protests of Coulter's appearance outside the auditorium as well as catching Coulter greeting fans...but dissing The BRAD BLOG...on her way home from the event!

I like to see her hate speech in public. This actually works in our favor. At the end of this cycle she will only have the skin heads on her side. She is driving moderate Republicans to us. Sure, let her foam at the mouth.

Because Assclowns of the Week: Cabbages and Kings Edition is now up. And this is a special, expanded edition that’s the most massive ACOTW in all of recorded human history (alright, we’re talking only since last July)! Because I take aim at not the usual ten, or even twelve, but fifteen of this week’s most prominent assclowns.

On the spit this week:

15) Fema, for “trailing” in their relief efforts.
14) Ken Mehlman, for picking on one of the most Republican Democrats as a symbol for liberal rage.
13) John McCain, for imparting the true message of bipartisanship.
12) USDA, for horsing around with a popular congressional bill.
11) Karl Rove, for threatening to cut the pursestrings off neocons who may actually be stupid enough to hold Bush accountable for spying on US citizens.
10) Ken Ham, for telling five year-olds, Hey, it’s OK to question scientific authorities.
9) George Deutsch, for blaming them damned lib’rals for exposing him as an academic fraud.
8) Democratic strategist Pat Caddell, for telling Alan Colmes why the Democrats shouldn’t take back control of Congress.
7) Kate O’Beirn and Chris Matthews, for putting them darkies in their places.
6) The House GOP and Tom DeLay, for playing musical chairs.
5) Alberto Gonzales, for lying his ass off to the Senate.
4) George Bush, just on general principle.
3) The Bush Administration, for being outed for their outing of Plame by their version of John Dean.
2) Michael Brown, for reminding us why cronyism doesn’t work when lives are at stake. And
1) Ann Coulter, for her searingly brilliant standup routine at a neocon clam bake.

Really she's nothing but a sadistic joker who likes to take all the stage all the time. Wish people would start ignoring her more often.

She isn't a skinhead...she simply acts like one to raise ruckus, attention and gain donations for fundraisers. Coulter is the all purpose style whore and people give her what she wants when they buy into the game that's played.

Why does mAnn hate us so much? Might it have something to do with our being all the good stuff she seems to have been born without? We make her feel like a stranger, so she chooses to surround herself with hordes of amoral, dimwitted sociopaths.

Coulter is the one who should be targeted for assassination instead of liberal judges - I really can't believe that somebody hasn't already done it - problem is she isn't worth wasting a bullet on. Since she is so spastic maybe she will just slip and fall somewhere and break her goose length neck.

I understand and sympathize with those who are very, very troubled by Ann Coulter's hate speech. However, if you answer her hate with hate, then she wins. Because that's what she (and all who are truly evil) strive to do: enlist you in their hatred. It doesn't matter to them who or what you hate, just as long as your primary human emotion at all times is hatred. This is the soul mission of the Devil.

Reject her words, yes, challenge others to reject her words, yes, but don't answer her hate with hate. Learn to rise above it. People like Ann Coulter always, always, always self-destruct eventually. I think we're already seeing the beginning of her self-destruction. She definitely appears to be quite anorexic. This is often a symptom of self-hatred. We might be quite surprised, in fact, to disover that the only person in America who "hates" Ann Coulter more than we do is Ann Coulter.

Just take a deep breath. The truth will come out, and good will triumph over evil. It ALWAYS does.

Tell that to the million's of Americans that vote didn't count.
* Then Adolf w. bush was installed twice.
Tell that to 20 Million Russians.
Tell that to 6 Million Jews.
Tell that to the Armenians, the Cambodians, the Tutsis and etc. etc. etc. . . . . . .

When someone like Michael Moore shines light on the corruption in our midst he is vilified by the compliant nazi media. When some whacked out creature from the logoon suggests the assasination of public figures it despises, the media goes mum. The hate mongrels are getting their message out, while the truth is being stifled. My conclusion is that whomever is calling the shots, that is to say, whomever is running the show that Bush pretends he's running, are setting us up for disaster.

I have to agree with Lewis #28.
She's easy to vilify, she's as venomous as they come, & I've been guilty of it, too. But some of the posts here stoop to her level of vitriol.
It's ugly & I don't think it helps our cause. In fact, I suspect some of these new posters may be rightwing plants.

Ann Coulter is no different from the KKK members that used to come into the restaurant in Alabama where I worked. After awhile I learned to spot them without even being told who they were - even when they were just having a meal and joking with their friends, a cloud hung around them. You could see something in their eyes, something cold and at the same time pitiful. These people, even those who were loud and seemed confident, desperately needed someone to be inferior to them, because deep down they felt "not good enough" to compete on equal terms. Sometimes they came in suits and ties, sometimes they proclaimed their beliefs loudly on belt buckles and t-shirts and tattoos, but it didn't take much to see through the fascade - they were frightened little cowards who wrapped their hatred around them like a blanket.

Their ability to feel superior because of their skin color was all they had in their lives to make them feel important - and they were going to hold on to it come hell or high water.

Just like there will always be people willing to follow the Klan, there will always be those sad little souls who identify with Coulter, and who will give her the attention she desperately needs.

Hatred directed outward comes from deep insecurity. Coulter is a stereotypical abuser, she fits the bully personality type to a tee. She knows that if she wasn't constantly lashing out at people, no one would pay any attention to her - and that would absolutely crush her.

Expect Coulter to get even more bitter and more nasty as she ages, especially since people who have a negative outlook tend to age poorly.

This type of reaction to an Ann Coulter speach is really a hoot. She calls an Arab a "raghead" and all of a sudden she has committed "hate speach" and gets compared to every hate group from the KKK to the NAZI party, yet the same people who condemn this type of act on the part of Coulter seem content to remain silent on the fact that the UN human rights committee is being headed by some of the most murderous butchers on the planet. I guess in the view of Coulters critics, their interpretations of "hate speach" must be condemned but outright murder is OK as long as other nations maintian their killing withint their own borders.

We are refering to those who want to call us infedels and the like. Those are the raghead, camel jocks, etc. And what about those cartactures of mohamad? There was no rage when Egypt published them. Just like the libs, double standards.

The examples of liberals and Democrats hurling equally detestable epithets at their opponents (Jesus freaks, fundies, nazis, flat-earthers, christers, house niggers, Klansmen, etc.) are too numerous to catalog, and yet Democrats see themselves as the paragons of virtue and tolerance and respect. They surely don't care if Muslims call Christians "Cross suckers". Where is the mass outrage for that? The din of crickets is louder.

Heaven forbid that we should use "bad names" to describe the city burning Muslims who follow the pedophile for prophet. They only walk in step to the Quran, Hadiths with their call to convert or kill us all. Dhimmitude, look it up people.

Who in their right mind would live Muhamhead's teachings as a certified terrorist and 54 year old child rapist (Ayesha was 6 at the time)? Ragheads.

Who would be offended by Coulter calling our killers for cartoons, "ragheads"? Only the uneducated who haven't taken the time to learn about Islam's historical call for complete domination. That's in their own written words and history. And if you can't even name the century Muhamhead was born in, don't confuse your opinions of Islam as facts.

Deal with it. For the most part we learned all we needed to know about Islam on 9-11. The rest have apparently forgotten. Even Daniel Pipes is dancing around CAIR. Coulter hasn't forgotten and we need to remind the rest.

It's so funny to me to listen to the hypocrites on this blog call Ann Coulter names because they're upset that she said something bad about the 'religion of peace' people who hate us and want us all dead.

I think it's great that she said it because I am basically tired of being told by every other race or ethnic group what I can't say. It's like, "you're white, so we get to tell you what you can say to other people and we'll call you a bigot and racist if you don't like it." It reminds me of "do as I say, not as I do."

Hey ANNRICE, you should know a lot about not being bright. That's pretty funny considering that you have to call people names and insult them because they say something you don't agree with. Of course, I'm sure in your small mind, that is the right thing to do. I can hear you now, "I'm not smart enough to come up with a lucid (I know you wouldn't be able to use that word, but I'll leave it in for the people who can) argument, so I'll say they're stupid!" That'll REALLY get 'em!

I know enough about being bright to realize we can include you in with the aforementioned two above (if you, in fact, are not them). That is all the "lucid" you've got coming, considering I've called no one names, as you indicated.
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However, anyone who is capable of saying, "For the most part we learned all we needed to know about Islam on 9-11" (#38) has probably earned themselves some name-calling.
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How about "lucidly" calling them a "dickweed pink pole smoker"? (#39)
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Ann Coulter is a deeply disturbed, bigoted, woman. Your support of her, and the above two posters, brands you in a like manner. No names are needed... and to observe this fact is not an insult.

Fuck the stupid raghead assholes. If they want to stay in the 3rd century let them. If I had it my way I would fly a jet over to all the muslim countries and nuke them back to the stone age; that is where they want to be anyway. Americans didn't start this war, it has been going on for years with the demoncrats doing nothing about it. America was founded on Christian principles not islamofacsist bullshit. Annihilate the whole race of ragheads.

Ann can be easily found in the evenings when she is in DC at the more upscale bars as a sultry lounge lizard wearing slit black short dresses and showing lots of leg. With a cigarette and drink constantly in hand she attempts to present the image of a seductive siren on the make. She dates FBI agents and such exclusively but these trysts are said to be very short lived.

It's this freakish and tasteless "sex appeal" of hers that gets the suppressed libidos of conservatives so wound up and is a big factor in her popularity among them.

Ann can be easily found in the evenings when she is in DC at the more upscale bars as a sultry lounge lizard wearing slit black short dresses and showing lots of leg. With a cigarette and drink constantly in hand she attempts to present the image of a seductive siren on the make. She dates FBI agents and such exclusively but these trysts are said to be very short lived.

It's this freakish and tasteless "sex appeal" of hers that gets the suppressed libidos of conservatives so wound up and is a big factor in her popularity among them.

Ann can be easily found in the evenings when she is in DC at the more upscale bars as a sultry lounge lizard wearing slit black short dresses and showing lots of leg. With a cigarette and drink constantly in hand she attempts to present the image of a seductive siren on the make. She dates FBI agents and such exclusively but these trysts are said to be very short lived.

It's this freakish and tasteless "sex appeal" of hers that gets the suppressed libidos of conservatives so wound up and is a big factor in her popularity among them.

Ann can be easily found in the evenings when she is in DC at the more upscale watering holes and hotel bars wearing her slit side short black dresses and showing lots of leg. With drink and cigarette in hand constantly she presents the image of a sultry lounge lizard on the make with a brave across the room gaze. It's said locally that she dates FBI agents and such exclusively but these trysts are very short lived.

The same attention seeking prevalent in her speeches and writes is displayed in her social life and this "sex appeal" she attempts to present is a large factor in her popularity with the conservative suppressed libido.

Doug E.
I think you are absolutely right I was thinking about that today, what if we just all ignored her, you know. Then she would have nothing, if everyone just stopped calling her for interviews and stop the feuding. I think she is very arrogant I just saw her on jay leno tonight. but her 15 minutes of fame will end soon, hopefully, if not, then she will get hers on judgement day. But it makes me want to cry when I think of people like her. Especially when she said that gay people are going to hell, if she believes in God then she shouldnt be saying stuff like that because she would know the truth. I guess shes one of those "Christians" that go around holding signs that tell people god hates them, but God hates no one, not even anne coulter, he only hates sinning, and I think she is a racist, arrogant, snide sinner. Pheww it feels good to get that off of my chest!!

Doug E.
I think you are absolutely right I was thinking about that today, what if we just all ignored her, you know. Then she would have nothing, if everyone just stopped calling her for interviews and stop the feuding. I think she is very arrogant I just saw her on jay leno tonight. but her 15 minutes of fame will end soon, hopefully, if not, then she will get hers on judgement day. But it makes me want to cry when I think of people like her. Especially when she said that gay people are going to hell, if she believes in God then she shouldnt be saying stuff like that because she would know the truth. I guess shes one of those "Christians" that go around holding signs that tell people god hates them, but God hates no one, not even anne coulter, he only hates sinning, and I think she is a racist, arrogant, snide sinner. Pheww it feels good to get that off of my chest!! And the "raghead" thing, its not even about our killers should be able to be called bad names, not all Muslims are bombers, you know. If you want to hate them than direct it towards the "terrorist" not just every single Muslim person

Doug E.
I think you are absolutely right I was thinking about that today, what if we just all ignored her, you know. Then she would have nothing, if everyone just stopped calling her for interviews and stop the feuding. I think she is very arrogant I just saw her on jay leno tonight. but her 15 minutes of fame will end soon, hopefully, if not. But doesnt it makes you disgusted when you think of people like her. Especially when she said that gay people are going to hell, if she believes in God then she shouldnt be saying stuff like that because she would know the truth. I guess shes one of those "Christians" that go around holding signs that tell people god hates them, but God hates no one, not even anne coulter, he only hates sinning, and I think she is a racist, arrogant, and snide. Pheww it feels good to get that off of my chest!! And the "raghead" thing, its not even about our killers should be able to be called bad names, not all Muslims are bombers, you know. If you want to hate them than direct it towards the "terrorist" not just every single Muslim person

But Im not going to sit here and be one of those people that call her names and drag queen and stuff like that. Hopefully all the offensive things from her and all the drama will settle down, if not, then maybe this is some big thing that is happening to America. No ones really came out and said stuff like she has before, because she is a woman, but I wonder what things will come. And I wonder if she votes because she said that she doesnt think women should vote, but she could be a hipocrit.